Hyderabad
After the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), it is now the turn of the AP State Disaster Response and Fire Services wing to crack the whip on owners of high-rise buildings who did not take occupancy certificates and final No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the department.
Notices are being slapped on owners of as many as 523 high-rise buildings, including commercial complexes, shopping malls and residential apartments for not taking NOCs from the fire services department. Another 91 hotels and 96 hospitals would also be covered in the second phase. Official sources said while notices were already issued to 243 high-rise buildings (including 86 in Hyderabad and 157 in Ranga Reddy district), which were permitted prior to March, 2007, notices to another 280 buildings, which were permitted by the corporation between March 2007 and 2010, are being issued now.
“The department will complete serving of notices by October. The builders have been asked to pay Rs 10,000 towards building inspection fee along with a late fee of Rs 2,500 immediately,” a senior official of the AP Disaster Response and Fire Services department said.
Sources said after receiving notices, several builders have applied for OCs in the last two weeks and paid about Rs 12 lakh towards user charges for carrying out inspections in their buildings.
Whenever a builder applies for permission of a high-rise building 15 metres and above a commercial building and 18 metres and above a residential apartment, the municipal corporation asks the builder to get an NOC from the fire services department and the Airport Authority of India (AAI).
Fire services department gives provisional NOCs on the proposal and assurance for providing fire-fighting equipment in the buildings. When the building is completed, builders have to apply for final NOCs by paying an inspection fee. Fire officials then inspect the buildings and see whether mandatory fire provisions are taken care of by the builder and then release the final NOC. Apart from this, the builders have to get the fire-fighting equipment inspected every year.
In the case of GHMC, builders have to apply for OCs once the building is completed. The GHMC town planning officials inspect the buildings to see whether they were constructed as per the sanctioned plan or not. Based on the OC, the GHMC releases the mortgaged portion of the building.
However, most builders do not bother to approach the corporation or the fire services department for OCs and NOCs.
In July last, the GHMC had taken up a drive to seal buildings without NOCs and sealed some structures in Himayatnagar. As a result, 631 builders applied for OCs from the corporation, including 335 builders at GHMC headquarters, 85 builders in Circle 10 (Khairatabad, Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills area) and 68 builders in LB Nagar and Gaddi Annaram municipal circle limits. About 300 buildings were already given NOCs in the past two months by the corporation.
After the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), it is now the turn of the AP State Disaster Response and Fire Services wing to crack the whip on owners of high-rise buildings who did not take occupancy certificates and final No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the department.
Notices are being slapped on owners of as many as 523 high-rise buildings, including commercial complexes, shopping malls and residential apartments for not taking NOCs from the fire services department. Another 91 hotels and 96 hospitals would also be covered in the second phase. Official sources said while notices were already issued to 243 high-rise buildings (including 86 in Hyderabad and 157 in Ranga Reddy district), which were permitted prior to March, 2007, notices to another 280 buildings, which were permitted by the corporation between March 2007 and 2010, are being issued now.
“The department will complete serving of notices by October. The builders have been asked to pay Rs 10,000 towards building inspection fee along with a late fee of Rs 2,500 immediately,” a senior official of the AP Disaster Response and Fire Services department said.
Sources said after receiving notices, several builders have applied for OCs in the last two weeks and paid about Rs 12 lakh towards user charges for carrying out inspections in their buildings.
Whenever a builder applies for permission of a high-rise building 15 metres and above a commercial building and 18 metres and above a residential apartment, the municipal corporation asks the builder to get an NOC from the fire services department and the Airport Authority of India (AAI).
Fire services department gives provisional NOCs on the proposal and assurance for providing fire-fighting equipment in the buildings. When the building is completed, builders have to apply for final NOCs by paying an inspection fee. Fire officials then inspect the buildings and see whether mandatory fire provisions are taken care of by the builder and then release the final NOC. Apart from this, the builders have to get the fire-fighting equipment inspected every year.
In the case of GHMC, builders have to apply for OCs once the building is completed. The GHMC town planning officials inspect the buildings to see whether they were constructed as per the sanctioned plan or not. Based on the OC, the GHMC releases the mortgaged portion of the building.
However, most builders do not bother to approach the corporation or the fire services department for OCs and NOCs.
In July last, the GHMC had taken up a drive to seal buildings without NOCs and sealed some structures in Himayatnagar. As a result, 631 builders applied for OCs from the corporation, including 335 builders at GHMC headquarters, 85 builders in Circle 10 (Khairatabad, Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills area) and 68 builders in LB Nagar and Gaddi Annaram municipal circle limits. About 300 buildings were already given NOCs in the past two months by the corporation.
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